"A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better."
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"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."
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"To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets."
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"I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters."
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"How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll takeyou out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure."She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal pokerand make shadow animals."
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"They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often."
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"You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears."
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"In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."
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"I didn't have any pets growing up."
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"I never met a pet I didn't like."
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"Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?"
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"Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness."
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"One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time."
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"You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep."
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"I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way."
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"My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy the simple things. She loves to jump on the couch with her favorite toys and roll around while I clap my hands."
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"I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?"
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"I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment."
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"Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets."
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"Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want."
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